Cannot load PHP5 with Apache2

shrimpwagon · 08-30-2006, 12:05 PM

I am a newbie but I don't think this is a newbie problem. I seem to know what I am doing and I have come to a huge bump in the road. I am now at the last stage of trying to use PHP5 (5.1.6) with Apache2 (2.0.59). I guess I got a weak distro (MEPIS) with few compilers. I had to grab byacc, flex, and bison just to get PHP5 and Apache2 to compile. I am just going to post my compile settings for the two and please see if I missed something because I can not figure it out. When I go to restart Apache2 I get this error message:

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./apachectl -k restart
Syntax error on line 232 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so into server: /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so: undefined symbol: zend_register_list_destructors_ex

Here is my configure settings for Apache2:

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./configure --enable-so

I realized I had to enable DSO for PHP5 to work with it. I know I have the proper directives in my httpd.conf setup file to load PHP5. Here it is as follows:

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...
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
...
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Apache2 works fine ONLY if I comment out the LoadModule line. Here is my configure settings when I compiled PHP5:

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./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --enable-sockets --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/lib --enable-ftp --with-zlib --with-openssl --enable-exif --with-gd --enable-memory-limit --with-libxml --with-pic --with-jpeg --enable-calendar --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-sysvmsg --enable-trans-sid --enable-bcmath --with-bz2 --enable-gd-native-ttf

I also downloaded the Zend Optimizer and followed its installation instructions. I then recompiled PHP5 using the above settings and I am still getting the error message from Apache2. Here is the php.ini file settings for Zend:

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[Zend]
zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so
zend_optimizer.version=3.0.1

zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.0.1/php-5.1.x/ZendOptimizer.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.0.1/php-5.1.x/ZendOptimizer.so
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15

Also I put php.ini in the folder path that I specified during configure, as noted above.

Sorry, this is long but I am trying to provide as much information as possible. I have tried to Google the solution for hours now and I come up with nothing.

Thank you for any help,
Shawn W

--Big sorry, didn't mean to post this in the General forum too. I though I could delete that one. I just thought the Software section was more appropiate.

deftone` · 08-30-2006, 03:49 PM

Hi,
I had too many headaches trying to run php5 with apache2, so what I did was I installed xampp. It's a package containing apache, php, SQL, and more, all bundled into one. Very easy to install, and configure, just read the documentation. This is not an actual solution to your problem, but you could consider this option. It ran like a charm from the first attemp on my machine and did the job for me. I want to say I am not a specialist or anything, so it's just a suggestion.

shrimpwagon · 08-31-2006, 06:01 AM

Thank you for the reply and advice. I actually just ran 'make clean ' on php-5.1.6. Then I installed php-5.1.4 and it seems to work now. I guess 5.1.6 is bugged. Unforntunatly, I am still having problems parsing xml dom functions. I installed libxml2-2.6.26 before installing php and I added the --with-libxml argument to the php ./configure command. This is so aggrivating. Any advice on this would be great too.

Thank you,
Shawn W